Photo: Nainy Diabate
Nainy Diabate performs funky, modern, Malenke griot groove.
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Nainy Diabate

Nainy Diabate got her start on a hot, dry Saharan evening under a star-filled sky just before the arrival of the harmattan winds in the small village of Kibaru. As a beautiful teenage girl, she gave her first live show with the seminal Rail Band de Bamako, an orchestra that had acted as a springboard for artists whose names have become the success stories of modern African music. That night another star rose over the vast expanses of the Niger River . . .

- Courtesy Calabash Music

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